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Release Date:
November 27, 2003
Original Title:
冬の日
Alternate Titles:
Fuyu no hi
Giorni d'inverno
Winter Days
冬の日
Genres:
Animation
Production Companies:
Dentsu Tec
IMAGICA
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 39
Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).
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Director:
Isao Takahata
Raoul Servais
Shinichi Suzuki
Koji Yamamura
Jacques Drouin
Co Hoedeman
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Yuri Norstein
Yôji Kuri
Yuichi Ito
Keita Kurosaka
Mark Baker
Břetislav Pojar
Reiko Okuyama
Yōichi Kotabe
Aleksandr Petrov
Wang Borong
Original Music Composer:
Shinichirô Ikebe
Original Story:
Matsuo Bashou
Producer:
Tatsuo Shimamura
Series Director:
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Writer:
Kihachiro Kawamoto
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